Patch's Best 2024 Halloween Yard Haunts: Cook County, Chicago

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Check out these slick haunts in suburban Cook County and Chicago:

Arlington Heights

4240 N. Harvard, Arlington Heights — We love this 3D display that is sure to scare the pants off trick-or-treaters.

Burbank

Trail of Terror, 8509 Newland Ave., Burbank — Trail of Terror. That is all.

Trail of Terror, 8509 Newland Ave., Burbank

THE NEPHILIM FALLEN ANGELS, 8211 and 8215 S. MULLIGAN AVE., BURBANK — It’s heartwarming when neighbors get along and pitch in to turn their front lawns into a hell for fallen angels every Halloween. This is one of the most popular yard haunts in the south suburbs. Now in its tenth year, the Ghoul Crew comes out to play on the weekends through Halloween (the Ghoul Crew sleeps during the week). Nephilim opens runs through Oct. 31; hours are Fridays and Saturdays 7 to 11 p.m.; Sundays 7 to 10 p.m. Per the scaremeisters: “Leave reality behind and enter our Dark Realm at the Nephilim Haunted Yard….Many animated and live ghouls surrounding two houses for Double the Scare!!! Creatures have been summoned to join our Nephilim Fallen Angels Ghoul Crew, making our 8th year more frightful! Be prepared to be Scared!! Join us if you DARE, because the next scream you hear will be your own.”

Chicago (Mount Greenwood)

House of Phobias, 11436 S. Homan Ave., Chicago (Mount Greenwood) – Got a phobia? Maybe snakes, or rodents. Morgan and Jim Stenlund’s display offers a phobia for everyone. They’ll be up and running on Oct. 12. On weekends their walk-thru will be open with live actors inside. On Fridays for an hour the actors will crawl back into their crypt for kids who might be too scared. “We absolutely love Halloween and the best part is making people excited about the holiday. It brings the community together and will give the kids memories to last a lifetime.”

McManor, 13017 S. Avenue O, Chicago – This South Side scare is a Patch fave mainly for its skeleton in an outhouse. The McNamaras have been transforming their house for years, starting with a full house facade, then adding many animated residents that are either custom made or store-bought with a McManor makeover to make them even more lifelike. McManor fan favorites are Bones-a-wise cracking skeleton in an outhouse and Burnie swaying back and forth dumping gasoline on McManor. The haunt also features a walk thru haunted house in the driveway that is only open certain nights. Check their Facebook page for hours of operation. The McNamaras will be taking donations for Pet Profile Rescue.

Chicago Ridge

Deadpool & Logan’s Multiverse Battle, 10308 Barnard Drive, Chicago Ridge – The Deadpool Corps and Wolverine find themselves in a multiverse battle. Can they survive and attack by the Undead Sentinel? Will Taylor SwiftPool save the day? We love Antonio Medina’s imaginative yard haunt. Oct. 1-31 until 10:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday are the best views.

Flossmoor

DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND HOME HAUNT, 900 WESTERN AVE., FLOSSMOOR — After 15 fabulous years in Oak Lawn, this playground from hell has relocated to Flossmoor. The yard haunt includes such old favorites as the lunging Freddy Krueger and a guy getting zapped in an electric chair. Head devil Keith Janowski has been busy building even more interactive delights, including a toxic lagoon, animatronics, carnEvil scary-go-round, haunted graveyard and other digital effects. Flossmoor-area residents are in for a treat. Open for viewing Oct. 18 through Oct. 31. The Devil’s Playground Home Haunt supports Haunters Against Hate! Parking is available in the adjacent school parking lot. Visit them on Facebook. Scary as hell!

EVIL ON AVERS, 18808 AVERS AVE., FLOSSMOOR — We love Cindy Ver Haar’s demonic gourd collection! Evil on Avers is a themed yard display entitled “Grinning Gourd Farm & Garden”. There are animated and static characters in scenes including a hayride of creepy children, pumpkin monsters, a corn monster tending the farm stand, giant praying mantises who have found their prey in the cornfield, garden gnomes carrying a coffin and more. “I have been ‘haunting’ my home for over 20 years. I do make quite a few of my own props. I am a member of Chicago Haunt Builders, a great group of people who get together to build props and share our love for Halloween,” Cindy says. (Stop by the equally magnificent “Devil’s Playground.”)

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Hometown

LORETTO CEMETERY, 9041 BECK PLACE, HOMETOWN — Tom Roche has had his display up since August and has been decorating his yard for the past ten years, adding props and animatronics. One of Hometown’s premiere yard haunts, this scary yard includes 25-30 props including zombies and witches, a handful of which move and talk. There is also a garage haunt. Roche and his girlfriend are out most nights haunting the yard with chainsaws and sledgehammers. This homeowner also has another surprise for trick or treaters. Watch out for the man on the lawn mower. Yard lights dusk till 9 p.m. Monday- Thursday; and dusk to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Justice

8016 S. 87th Ave, Justice – This house offers family free haunted fun.

LaGrange Park

430 N. Catherine Ave., LaGrange Park — “We’ll be handing out some of kids’ favorite candies candies (M&Ms, Reese’s) come Halloween night.”

Midlothian

Meadowlark Haunt, 15115 Hamlin Ave., Midlothian — This award-winning home haunt with a walk-thru won Midlothian’s 2023 Scariest House contest. Animatronic and static props with live actors on select nights, weather permitting. Walkthrough open on weekends. If this doll doesn’t creep you out we don’t know what will. Runs Oct 18-31 Su-Th (6-9PM) Fr-Sa (6-10PM).

Old Town Terror, 4359 150th St., Midlothian — Back for its 16th terrifying year, this award-winning creepy cemetery with multiple animations will scare you. The haunt will be lit from dusk to about 10 p.m. weeknights starting Oct. 18, a little later on the weekends and Halloween.

Oak Forest

The Twisted Neighbor, 5020 158th St., Oak Forest – Some of the south suburbs’ sickest Halloween displays can be found in Oak Forest. This year the Twisted Neighbor has built a bone throne where people can walk up and take a photo if they want. On the weekend they will have a fog machine and sometimes they like to scare people. We wish they were our neighbor!

The Haunted Garage, 5936 Condado Drive, Oak Forest —Oak Forest High School student David Martinez is the mastermind behind this haunted car shack, which is bigger and better than ever, with new scares. Don’t let the innocent tract house fool you. The garage is a portal to hell with great special effects. David and his pals have added new tracks for 2024. Live actors will jump out at you.

Twisted Estates, 15200 Laramie Ave., Oak Forest – The former ‘Stuttgart Horror’ with their devil baby who is now a teenager, merged with “Laramie Hills” to form Twisted Estates. These people love Halloween and will have a haunted house walk-thru. Their yard is always crazy.

Haunt On The Lane, 4436 Lisa Lane, Oak Forest – This family-friendly haunt has been illuminating Oak Forest for years.

Oak Lawn

NIGHTMARE ON NATOMA, 9716 S. NATOMA AVE., OAK LAWN — We love Lou and Melissa Rizzo’s shrieky, freaky yard. Like many yard haunts, it keeps getting bigger every year. Lou’s friends and neighbors have been telling him to get on the scary yard tour for years, and we’re glad they did. People can walk down a path and look through the windows at the decorations inside the Rizzos’ house. “We did this last year and we had a blast meeting all the people that came by. We added a few more things and changed a few also. We have a graveyard scene with many skeletons and animated props to add to the fun. It is kid friendly because that’s who we do it for — the kids.” The yard is lit from 4 to 10 p.m. weekdays, through 11 p.m. weekends.

Smith’s Grove Cemetery, 8720 S. 55th Ave., Oak Lawn – This is a boneyard for the ages and has been featured on the cover of our tour o’ scary yards in past years. Timothy Smith has built a full graveyard scene with a full skeleton rock band and audience, complete with light show and music. Plus, two giants! Everything is up now through Halloween.

SPIRITS ON SPROAT, 9028 S. SPROAT AVE., OAK LAWN — Love classic monsters from the movies, TV, literature, and pop culture? Come visit Spirits on Sproat, now in its fabulous 20th year. In 2021, we’ve introduced brand new animatronics and other props designed to give you nightmares, as well as all the old favorites we’ve put on display since 2004. This popular home haunt showcases nearly 100 figures and props—most being custom-made replicas of your favorite scary movie characters and horror icons—plus several originals. Enjoy humorous museum-like signage describing each character, creepy horror movie music mixed with sound effects, live scarers, two fun “find the monster” scavenger hunt games, front window music-and-lights show, and more. Check out Spirits on Sproat (www.spiritsonsproat.com), which was named to the Horror Tourers Hall of Fame and featured twice on Svengoolie’s TV program. It’s also 7-year-old Gavin DeGrechie’s favorite haunt. Open 7-11 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Oct. 31 (Halloween); open 7-10 p.m. on Sundays and weeknights during the last week of October.

Orland Park

“Chills On Chestnut,” 7653 Chestnut Drive, Orland Park – Jennifer Storino is passing on her love for Halloween to her kids. They’ve gone all out with skeletons in their yard set against a haunted hotel scene set up in the garage. Jennifer confesses that they decorate the entire inside of their house, each room having a different theme: the basement is IT; the dining room features the classic movie murderers (Michael Myers’s, Jason, etc); the living room are the classics (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc) , the family room is Wizard of Oz, the bathroom is from the trick-or-treat movie, one daughter‘s room is hocus-pocus, the other is Beetlejuice. The good chocolate will be handed out on Halloween.

Shurley House Of The Dead, 17404 Deer Creek Drive, Orland Park — There is lots to see in the Shurley yard haunt full of creatures, ghouls, headless brides and more. Check out the projection of the lady in the upstairs window that turns into a ghoul before your very eyes. New this year is the Inferno King’s Castle of Terror. This yard haunt has been featured on every major TV news station. Fun but not too scary. Kids will like it. Dusk to ten, maybe a little later on weekends through Halloween.

SCARES ON SEQUOIA, 7631 SEQUOIA COURT, ORLAND PARK — Sorry, but the Scarecrow Army at this Orland Park haunt doesn’t sing or dance. Scares on Sequoia gets weirder every year – and we mean that in a good way. Seven rooms are featured this year. Over 30 animated props populate this lawn, including a pumpkin patch, Dracula and his wolves, and my more. Glad to see this bad ass display back on the list after a few years off. Open Monday through Thursday, and Sunday, 6 to 10 p.m.; Friday through Sunday 6 to 11 p.m. and Halloween, 4 to 11 p.m.

Sinister Cedar, 8446 Cedar St., Orland Park – We welcome these nutjobs in Orland Park to the list. The Muellers go crazy every Halloween. They’re still putting up stuff but there is plenty to see.

Palatine

Hidden Creek Community Park, 1426 N. Whispering Springs Circle, Palatine – Wanna play? This one-of-a-kind display put on by a mother and son duo offers static and motorized props, plus a walk-thru yard haunt. They’ve put in years of experience into building and painting many of the pieces. The yard jaunt is accepting non-perishable food items along with money donations for their local food pantry.

Sally’s Nightmare on Melvina, 12407 S Melvina Ave., Palos Heights – Sally’s ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ haunt featuring handmade characters from the Tim Burton classic, including singing pumpkins, animations and great lighting.

Streamwood

Monster Squad Manor, 58 McKinley Lane, Streamwood – This delightful, family-friendly yard haunt boasts 12-foot props, static and motorized props including a giant fire-breathing dragon, predator of the night, a werewolf, spooky skeletons and much more. On Halloween we have a candy chute and of course we hand out an assortment of full size candy. We are open everyday from dusk until 10 p.m. from now until Oct. 31.

Tinley Park

Dead Man’s Party, 17642 70th Court, Tinley Park – Order a keg and party on with this gang of wasted skeletons. This is Steve’s first year on the list.

7414 162nd Place, Tinley Park – Scott O’Connor Jr., the Christmas light guy, is putting on a Halloween light display from 5 to 10 p.m. Tune in to 105.7 FM and watch from your car. He’s been taking donations for the Project Fire Buddies. After Halloween, he starts setting up for Christmas.

19431 Lisadell Drive, Tinley Park – Jim and Jennifer Cate offer a brightly lit display. We like the figures smashed up against the window.

Worth

Nagle’s Nightmare, 11560 S. Nagle Ave., Worth – Meet Michael Myers with Dr. Lumas, Freddie, Jason, Killer Klowns from outer space, Frankenstein with his bride and many other characters. Some may come alive and walk around. Donations of food and money are greatly appreciated for Haunts for Hunger, feeding families in need during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Nightmare on Natchez, 10900 S. Natchez Ave., Worth – This is Mike and Carrie Didier’s tenth year of scaring the hell out of Worth residents. Every year they add something new for visitors to check out. They’ve become a local hit on Halloween over the years. The haunt features a combination of animatronics, homemade monsters, window hologram displays that run nightly after dark, and even a guillotine that people can take their pictures in. Halloween night, actors will haunt the yard. The display should be up and running by the second week of October. The Didiers hand out a mix of chocolate, fruit flavored candy, and small prizes on Halloween night.

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